CIA CAMPUS RECRUITING BRINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100010007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 15, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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KALAMAZOO GAZETTE (MI) FILE ONLY
15 October 1986
CIA campus recruiting brings pr?
J ' PAM JAMOM -
GAZETTE STAFF WRITER
Fewer than two dozen students listened to an
even smaller group of protesters express their
opposition to the visit of a federal Central Intel-
ligence Agency recruiter Tuesday at Western
Michigan University.
Grassroots, a student organization, spon-
sored the anti-CIA rally in front of WMU's
Bernhard Student Center.
Eight protesters clutching signs stood in
front of the student center, while about 20 other
students listened - although half of them were
standing in line at an automatic bank teller ma-
chine.
According to one of the protesters, the crowd
doubled during the later stages of the rally.
The visit of CIA personnel recruiter Roger
] Andrews of Cincinnati was confirmed by an of-
ficial in WMU's placement services office who
asked that his name not be used. The school
official denied requests from a Kalamazoo Ga-
zette reporter to interview Andrews or any of
the students who met with Andrews.
A United States governmental agency, the
CIA collects political, economic and military
information from other countries and evaluates
it for other U.S. agencies. It also conducts ac-
tivities to protect the nation's security.
At the rally, Grassroots spokesman Bruce
Jacob said, "The reason we're here is because
the CIA is recruiting on campus and we need to
expose the crimes of the CIA around the
world."
Jacob, a WMU graduate student, said the
CIA's support of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua
is being funded by U.S. tax dollars - something
he is against.
Disappointed by the size of the rally, Jacob
attributed the meager turnout to bad weather
and the public's ignorance on the issues be-
cause of the national news media's poor cover-
age of CIA activities.
"There should be hundreds of students out
here," said Jess Reaser, another WMU stu-
dent.
Reaser said some of Western's foreign stu-
dents have told him they are surprised that
WMU students are not as involved with issues
here, unlike their counterparts in South Africa
and Central America.
"It's important that students stay aware of
this stuff," Reaser said.
One of those at the rally was Camillus Du-
fresne, a Catholic brother of the Community of
Christian Brothers, who held a sign that read:
"Your tax dollars support murder, rape and
torture in Central America. Stop the CIA. "
A retired vice president of a college in Mem-
phis, Tenn., which is run by his order, Dufresne
works in Nicaragua with an ecumenical group
concerned with literacy and health problems of
Salvadorans in Nicaragua.
Dufresne, who is on a public speaking tour in
the United States, said the CIA is "immoral and
undemocratic" and Its basic principles are no
different than those of the KGB in Russia.
Besides teaching terrorist tactics to the Con-
tras, the CIA has also sponsored military
coups, assassinations and has distributed mis-
information to the news media, Dufresne said.
Another speaker at the rally, the Rev. Don
VanHoeven, a Reformed Church in America
campus minister at WMU, who has visited
Nicaragua, said, "I'm here as a Christian."
VanHoeven said, it's a "sin" that the CIA
would be on campus urging students to partici-
pate in a "training program of death and de-
struction against a sovereign nation
(Nicaragua) of innocent people."
"The work of the CIA has gone wild - it has
gone out of control," he said, referring to their
involvement in several other countries
throughout the world.
VanHoeven asked for people to join him in
requesting that the government disband the
CIA.
Don Cooney, a WMU associate professor,
said, "We're saying what the CIA is doing is
against the principles of humanity and the Con-
stitution. "
The rally was also timely since Eugene Ha-
senfus, an ex-Marine who once flew for Air
America, a CIA-operated airline in Vietnam,
was captured in Nicaragua after his arms-load-
ed plane was downed Oct. 5 by a Nicaraguan
missile. Vice president George Bush has been
linked to overseeing the Contra air supply oper-
ation -.something that he has denied.
One student attending the rally, Cindy
Hooper, a junior at WMU, believes Hasenfus
had a CIA connection. "I don't believe every-
thing the government says," she said.
Grassroots also will be sponsoring a video
tape and discussion about David McMichael, a
former CIA analyst, called, "The CIA in El Sal-
vador and Nicaragua," at 7 p.m. Sunday at St.
Aidan's Chapel. The chapel is located on the
corner of Gilkison Avenue and Wilbur Street oil
campus near the Sindecuse Health Center.
STAT
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